<p>I was admitted to the Columbia College this year and I have a brother who would like to apply to the same uni next year and my girlfriend would like to apply nex year as well.
Is a sibling or a boyfriend who was admitted a year before an advantage or disadvantage?
(During the app you can indicate any family mambers who were admitted in the past - but that would be useful for my brother only, not for the gf…)
Thank you very much!</p>
<p>I think that many colleges will give slight preference to a sibling of a student, provided that sibling has similar or better grades and SAT/ACT scores. Perhaps your brother could include in his essay how much he enjoys visiting you at college to really emphasize that you are there.
I am not aware of any colleges that give girlfriend/boyfriend preference.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t think it will help your girlfriend very much, but hopefully she is just as good of a student as you and will get in as well. As for your brother, it will help him a lot because I believe he will basically have that legacy status which can be HUGE at a lot of colleges.</p>
<p>While your brother will not have legacy when he applies (only parents and grandparents count), there may be a section in the app that asks for siblings that go or have went there. Normally, in a tiebreaker situation between two applicants where one has something for that section and one does not, the one (like your brother) will be admitted. </p>
<p>The girlfriend/boyfriend relation is completely variable and colleges do not consider it.</p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>
<p>Your girlfriend can put you [i.e. having a boyfriend] as an EC and see how Columbia feels about it :p</p>
<p>Sorry, you made me laugh.</p>
<p>ExtraSpecial Curricular</p>
<p>I hope you realize that your girlfriend is only dating you to get an advantage for getting into Columbia.</p>
<p>Once she gets in, you are totally over.</p>
<p>(Your brother, on the other hand, is far less likely to abandon you afterward).</p>
<p>You know what they say? Something about “Bros before…”?</p>
<p><<I hope you realize that your girlfriend is only dating you to get an advantage for getting into Columbia.</p>
<p>Once she gets in, you are totally over.>></p>
<p>Dude, that’s cold, man.</p>
<p>Anyway, no, gf/bf relations won’t help. They’ll just say, “ahh, how cute” and then forget about it in two seconds.</p>
<p>No advantage in either case.</p>
<p>Lol. When I first read the thread title I thought the OP was asking a question along the lines of whether or not it is an advantage to have a sibling or girlfriend going to the same college. Haha. But now I see that is not the case. </p>
<p>Anyways I wouldn’t want to go to the same school as a BF/GF or sibling.</p>
<p>OKay, as I understood - for my brother, it can be an advantage, given that he shows more or less the same characteristics as me.
But as for my gf - can me being already amitted be a disadvantage for her? I mean - would they say “OK, this girl just wants to be with her boyfriend and that’s the main reason why she’s applying…” ???
Thanks…</p>
<p>Unless she writes about you at columbia in her essays (which I would advise not to do since personal relationships are never the best topic unless certain circumstances permit) columbia does not have a section where she can disclose this info. And not to be pessimistic but how do you know you guys will still be together by next year?</p>
<p>Well, if I had to elaborate on this part of the topic:
- As someone mentioned above - since I was admitted to CC, she will remain my gf at least until she sends the app to Columbia and —
- We both are Czech (Europe) but during the last five moths she has been studying in Singapore, which means we’ve been separated for quite a long time already; when she came home to celebrate Christmas, we were together and nothing had changed since she left to her new school so I am really sure about this relationship (and really sorry about your bad experience with other long (not) lasting relationships.
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<p>When I first read the thread title, I thought that you meant your sibling and your boyfriend were the same person.</p>
<p>It’s absolutely no good to go to the same college with a sibling or a girlfriend. I can’t imagine. This world deserves a better class of students, and I’m gonna give it to them. Tell your men they work for me now. </p>
<p>It’s not about money. It’s about… sending a message.</p>
<p>Don’t let the college know that your boyfriend goes there. That may count against you because the college may think that your only interest in the college is because your boyfriend is there. Colleges also know that most high school romances don’t last, so the college may fear that if accepted, you’d go elsewhere or would transfer if your relationship has ended.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>So then what can be said about even higher education? Do boy/girlfriends and/or spouses have any sort of effect (positive or negative) when it comes to graduate school positions or even jobs in academia (postdoctoral fellowships, even faculty positions)?</p>
<p>I actually have a set of friends who both applied to Harvard grad school and it was clear that they would both have to be accepted to attend. Who knows what else, but they both got in. This, however, was nearly 30 years ago and the world of Harvard and elite admissions was in a very different place.</p>
<p>And I think the sibling relationship helps a lot. I know of two ivy league admits who were nothing like their older siblings in stats and they both were accepted. Not sure if that only works in the Ivy (as neither parents went to said Ivy so it wasn’t Legacy in the traditonal sense). However, one was URM AND full pay, so I am sure the latter had more to do with it than most anything else.</p>
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<p>It’s not enough to just list an EC. You would have to show that you are an exceptional boyfriend/girlfriend.</p>